Contemporary media culture seems to suggest that it is unacceptable for a woman to look her age if she is over twenty-five. Apart from the flood of anti-aging products and procedures advertised to ever younger audiences, another key indicator for this trend can be found in the female faces presented to us in popular television programmes.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth annual postgraduate conference. Cinema and television have always been media that operate on the boundaries of social, technological and artistic change.

The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD The VLV is delighted that Lord Puttnam CBE has agreed to deliver the Jocelyn Hay Voice of the Listener & Viewer Lecture 2017. “The Jocelyn Hay VLV Lecture was established to reflect the huge contribution that Jocelyn Hay, our founder, made to public broadcasting and civic debate over thirty years.” said Colin Browne.

The third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29 ^th , 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported by ITV Cymru Wales, S4C and TAC, the summit will open with analysis on the likely future of the media in Wales. BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore, will take part in an in-depth interview.

Northern Charter 5th Floor, Commercial Union House 39 Pilgrim Street Newcastle NE1 6QE Thursday 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm) [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc483abffe68524470c37657e/images/3d21e6f9-554c-42a1-89e1-cf6cc3455632.jpg] Marjolaine Ryley ‘Gust of Wind’ 2014 Northern Charter and The Family Ties Network in association with NEPN present this study day, which considers how photography can create visual conversations about lived

In 1978 Susie Orbach declared fat a feminist issue. This slim volume of writing put forward a radical new understanding of feminine embodiment and the gendered psychology of eating. Taking place almost four decades later, this one-day conference will revisit the terrain explored by Orbach and open out new themes of analysis by examining contemporary feminist perspectives on food.

I blogged last year for CSTonline about how shared conceptions of childhood facilitated links between television institutions and audiences across Europe, in case of the children’s documentary series If You Were Me (BBC 1971-75). This blog follows up with some examples of how networks of borrowing and collaboration around Europe underpinned children’s animation programmes from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5th International Conference CUNY School of Journalism New York City, USA August 31-September 1, 2017 Conference Keynote Speaker: Andrew Mendelson Associate Dean & Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Conference Key Media Speaker: Tim Harper Journalist &

Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works of a particular author or artist that are recognized as genuine: ‘the Shakespeare canon’ (Oxford Dictionaries. Online) Apologies, but I’ve marked an awful lot of student essays recently (and I do mean awful). This stylish trend for opening one’s work with an easily Googled dictionary definition is infectious. In the worst possible sense. See?

Although Netflix’s approach to genre is different to those predominant in screen studies, the streaming site provides useful contextual materials for teaching on the subject. At several points last semester Netflix proved relevant to discussions of genre as part of an introductory Film Studies module, as well as an Honours ‘Film Genres’ module.

There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that we can confidently expect programmes from after late 1977 to survive. Thanks to the good work of Sue Malden in establishing BBC Archive guidelines, it was only at this time – rather late in the day in terms of recording technology – that a policy of systematically preserving BBC TV programming came into being.